McCulloch Beauregard "Dock" ADAMSON

                   Dock adamson grew up with a limited amount of schooling, however, he seemed to possess more natural ability than his siblings. He was siaid to have been a natural frontiersman as wellas a real cow man. During his later teens he was helping heis brother at a cotton gin, got caught in the saws and lost his right arm at the shoulder. however, he never seemed to look back as a result of his misfortune.

It was in the early 1880's that he went west, got a job with the old rocking chair ranch in collingsworth county, a 500,000 acre spread, owned by an English capitalist. The wagon Boss was the late Edd Bromley whose widow and son Bill lived on the ranch Edd left to themin Donley county. Edd told John Thomas adamson  first hand that all the years that Dock Adamson worked for him, it was never necessary to help or wait on him for anything. he was always ready and did his part.

Dock worked for this organization for about 12 years, and every dollar that he could possibly spare he invested in land and cattle. In about 1898 he sold all of his holdings in collingsworth county rounded up all of his cattle and drove them to Gage, oklahoma where he puchased a small rach of about  3,000 acreas. He fulfilled his lifelong dream and operated this successful ranch until june 7, 1907.

Dock Adamson was murdered on his ranch by Snowden Baily( who married his stepdaughter Mable watson a few years prior) while mending fences on his ranch. No one was ever able to suggest any other motive except that Dock Adamson was murdered for his property. The overall picture indicates that there was a conspiracy plot that preceded his death.

His widow, Ida, subsequently married a friend of hers by the name Harry Thompson.

Dock was a member of the Methodist church.